Rough-rounder.



I G. BASLBR.

ROUGH ROUNDER.

APPLICATION FILED'FE'B. 3,1913.

Patented Dec. 15, 1914.

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Specification of Letters Patent.y PatnteClDeC. 15, 1914.

Application led February 3, 1913. Serial No. 745,878.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE BAsLna, a citizen of the United States,l and resident of Lynn, county of `Essex, State of Massachusetts, have invented an improvement in Rough-Rounders, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters von the drawings representing like parts.

In the manufacture of shoes one of the eX- ceedingly diiiicult steps in the manufacture is to get a smooth and properly evened and shaped edgeto the sole, especially adjacent the hollow of the foot or inside of the shank.

My present invention aims to take the place of the so-called rough rounder, and provides means for securing the above described edge at all points around the sole, including the shank portion, and aims to provide means for accomplishing this object with great rapidity, accuracy and high quality of iinish. To this end I provide a high speed cutting tool, so shaped that it will curve away from the shoe in the direction required to permit the vamp to overhang the sole at the hollow of the foot mentioned, and will also permit the sole to be turned abruptly as required, just back of the ball when rounding the sole adjacent said hollow, said cuttingtool proceeding somewhat on the principle of a combined saw and planing or grinding or polishing tool, and in its preferred embodiment consisting of a rotary ring or hollow band-like cutter provided on its front edge with relatively fine raking teeth so located and shaped with reference to the work as to remove the surplus leather with great rapidity and yet leave a smooth and preferably more or less finished and polished sole-edge, while permitting the shoe to be moved in the various positions required for giving the desired shape to the sole-edge in all its curvatures and angles.

In the accompanying drawings, in which Ihave shown one embodiment of my inventool which constitutes the main kfeature of my invention is herein shown as comprising two parts, a cutting part and a driving radius.

part 2 preferably removably secured together by any suitable means, as by screws 3, so as to constitute a band-like tool of small its front edge and preferably lying in the rlilhe part 1 has teeth 4 formed in of`a saw (excepting that they have no set This tool is provided with a rela-h tively sharp external bend 5 just back from said edge, and a reverse bend 6 on its inner side, said bend 5 being provided to enable the shoe to `be shifted laterally when vthe edge 4 is-required to cut a concave portion of the sole-edge, and said part 6 being provided to permit the cutaway portion of the sole to escape preferably through the open# ing '7 which extends entirely-through"the tool.' The tool is provided withfixed external and internal bearings 8, 9, the latter being cut away at 10 toreceive a work table 11, and at 12 to overhang the space 7. The inner edge of the driving part 2 of the tool is provided with gear teeth 13 to mesh with a driving pinion 14 fast on the end of a yshaft 15, driven bv any suitable means, as by a belt pullev 16 and belt 17, said shaft being journaled in supports 18, 19 and the latter serving also to support the bearings 8 and 9 and the table :11. The table 11 is made angularly adiustable by any suitable means, being herein shown as having a hingelike support `at 20 adjacent its right hand or inner edge, and provided at its outer edge with adjusting means shown as a pivoted and threadedleg21 engaged by a nut 22 seated yinthe support 19. One reason that the 'tool 1 has a small radius isto enable it to engage the sole properly underneath the overhanging vamp at the hollow of the foot, and accordingly to keep the leather of the vamp out ofVVV accidentaly con# tact with the edge 4 of said tool, I provide a guard 23 pivoted at 24 to the support 19, and extending thence forward over the annular ,toolr or rounder suiiiciently near to the normal position ofthe sole to make it impossible for the vamp to come in Contact with the rapidly rotating utting member'.

In use,the operator places the shoe with the sole flat down on the table 11 and then presses the sole forward, following whatf ever mark or guide is provided by which to round the sole. This guide ris usually the outer kedge yofthe welt. As the sole moves forward, the relatively ne teeth4 sever the leather along the desired line andthe removed 'strip passes on through the vopenl space 7 While the shoe itself overhangsy the :relatively small tool to Whatever extentis required by the size and style of the shoe,

and yet with no possibility'of being injured.

' Then thel holloiv of the shoe is reached, the

` shoe is radially deflected or shifted onthe table 11 so as to permit the desired concavity of the sole edge to be formed, this shifting of the shoe and sole being freely f permitted by the annular curveI 5- and by the relatively narrow Width of the band l, 2. ll/loreover, as the shoe moves along, the

flat outer sides of the cutting part 1 andits rapidly moving teeth prevent the .formation of a roughl or jagged suiface,ubut on the contrary produce a smooth and often a polished surface or sole-edge. 1f, for any reason, itis desired to give the sole-edge a particular bevel, the table '11 lis adjusted correspondingly to the right angle or'level,

by means vof the adjusting nut 22. In designating my machine as a rough rounder, it Will be understood that l am conforming -merely to the custom ofcalling the ma- 'chine kby thatname which performs this of- 'i j tice on a sole, but that the Work of my machine is not rough. This has already been explained. y I,

I Wish it understood that my invention is not limited to the precise details herein set forth, excepting as speciiied in certain of the claims, inasmuch as the invention is capable,

in its broader aspects, of'a Wide range of mechanical embodiments, as vvill appearv rying the cutting edge and beingcur'vedy away from the cutting edge immediately baclrof said cylindrical portion ata sufficiently shorter radius and Aat a relatively sharper angle than that of a shoe shank Whose sole is to be operatedvupon to permit` the l'sole to bepresented to the cutting edge at varying angles, whereby the back of said cutter avoids interference with the overhanging shoe upper at the shank and Genies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing Washington, ID. C, y 1

permits said cutter yto trim-the sole edge both straight and on abevel. 1

2. A rough rounder, comprising a leather edge-cutting vtool with av bandlilre cutting n edgefto trim'surplus stoel; from a sole edge, said cutter havinga cylindrical cutting edge portion and anogee curve immediately back -of the cylindrical cutting edge and' forming a relatively-sharp angle to vpermit a sole to be presented 4to the cutting edge for trimming said sole inY lines' of curve different than the curve of said cutter. l

A rough rounder, comprisingan-annular band-like cutter having leathercutting teeth` at one edge of the band, gear teeth in the opposite edge, andan open space therethrough, a Work tableto support the `sole substantially at a tangent tothe operating portion of thecutting teeth, and means to rotate said ycutter at a highspeed.

al. in annular cutting tool, comprising a cutting portion andgadriving portion having gear teeth therein, both 'portions being secured together, said cutting portion having vteeth in itsv frontedge, and'being thence contracted inwardly on a curvev of` relatively short radius immediately-back of said teeth, whereby. the driviiig'portion will be on'a shorter annular ring to,y permit the sole of the shoe lat the over-hanging upper lportion to be trimmed Without interfering Vwith the vdriving-part of said cutter,v in combination 'with means for rotating said cutter A at high speed.

5. An annularr band-like cutter, having afree open space therethrough axially thereof, stationary circular internal and external' bearings for the cutter, means for rapidly rotating the cutter, a Work table extending approximately diametrically `of. said cutter ffor presenting a sole-edge in position to be rounded, and aggiartially surrounding and overliangingy guard extending toward the table in position to maintain the shoe upper out of contact With thecutter While the sole 100 of said shoe is being rounded. f

ln testimony whereof, I have signed by name to this specification,l in the presenceV f of two subscribing Witnesses. f .Y

` GERGE f BASLER.

j litnesses: A l WALT-nn l/VrPYNE, n l

' y JOSEPH F. MGGRATH; 

